Google Maps Android API v2: GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException not thrown anymore

Question

After updating Google Play Services to version 18, seems that GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException can't be used anymore. This piece of code:

try {
    MapsInitializer.initialize(ctx);
} catch (GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

generates this error:

Unreachable catch block for GooglePlayServicesNotAvailableException. This exception is never thrown from the try statement body

How can I achieve the same result now? Thanks

Answer 1

Now the function initialize() returns a ConnectionResult so you can do something like this:

if (MapsInitializer.initialize(ctx) != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
    // Handle the error
}